Recently played a quick search game with my germans and on seeing the player against me was of a much lower skill level (lance corpral) i decided i was a good opportunity to try a new stat that i might not try vs a stronger player. I used the church card and the option from the church to pay 4000 coin and get all mercs for free. (btw is this worth doing?) Then i got all the mercs in my deck. Thats every merc card the germans have. Everyone! Everyone individually and as the armies. And attacked him with mass mercs. As me army pilaged through his town losing men as he pumped longbows to try to stop the onslaught, the hackapells were very very strong...taking everything in their wasy! I noticed that after the huge battle ended and he resigned, all i had left was the hackapells. He did a good job. The thing is i havent ever heard anyone talk about how great they are. And they really are fantastic.
Thanks.
P.s. Why in the hackapells picture to the have a pistol like a dragoon or ruyter? When they have an hand attack.
Thanks.